Sugercrete?
Dude, CANEcrete was right there. It was right fucking there!
Also sugarcrete begs the question (before you read up on it) what happens when it rains?
Agreed canecrete has got to be it.
It'd probably be fine, it uses the leftover fibers, not literal sugar that dissolves. A layer of waterproofing that'd you'd use for an earthen home or earth ship would probably do the trick.
I’d argue “canecrete” is too close to “concrete.” Close enough that it might invite trademark/customer confusion complaints from the concrete industry.
I'd argue that that argument is not good
Canecrete already exists, that's why:
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/iass/piass/2018/00002018/00000020/art00011
It’s all fun and games until Hansel and Gretel show up at your elderly grandmother’s sugarcrete house.
Or you hear Fraggle Rock music playing nearby
Don't try to simulate this by adding sugar to concrete.
Or do, depending on who's building what
Nobody talks about the obvious so... can I lick it?
Yes, but there's no more sugar in it
Sweet
What about mine?
I'll try it for science.
This is pretty cool and it makes me wonder if there are far north options for materials you could use such cattails/bullrushes or maybe in a little warmer areas less desirable wood like poplar
Cobb, then hempcrete. Rammed earth or CEB always an option as well.
There is hempcrete too
Reed Canary grass makes great cob. Hemp is another likely fibre.
Taking a step back, what they've kinda done is taken wattle and daub (but not really) and worked it to industrial standards. And wattle and daub got used in all kinds of ways all over the world.
Obv wattle and daub to structural standards and firecode and such so that your building can meet modern specifications is actually quite a handy thing? But yeah there's an overall myopia to steampunk-leaning researchers to focus on a singular feedstock instead of working to create a spectrum of materials based on local availability.
Lots of strong natural fibers out there.
This article was written by ants.
Haha my first thought was those modern cars that have rat problems because they wrapped the wires in a plant based wrapping that rats enjoy
plant based wrapping
It was soy, if I remember correctly. Bloody rats weren't even the issue for me, it was the squirrels!
My motorcycle was made in 2000 and a previous owner added a headlight flasher module at some point. Some rodent crawled all the way up inside the bike and into the nose cone just to gnaw on the flasher wires. I have looked around and inside many places over the years but have never found any other bite marks.
This is really cool! I really hope the bricks will behave well long term.
naughty bricks?
fibrous residues of sugarcane, called bagasse, with sand and mineral binders to produce lightweight, interlocking blocks
Now, how much is termite prevention.
We figured it out for wood, so if this is Termite edible, I'm sure we they'll figure it out here
Those are costs to handle infestation (but not including repair). I'm talking about the measures we take to prevent it in the first place that are already part of standard construction costs. Keep wood dry, pressure treat wood that can't be kept dry/off the ground. So while sugarcrete might not be the 1:1 replacement for concrete, termites are not going to be an insurmountable task to mitigate
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There needs to be processing, manufacturing, and other infrastructure built for the practical large scale implementation of any new technology. That takes time. Bureaucracy can make steps take even longer.
I think I'm on lemmy too much, I read the title as open source building material...
Cuba! Get on this!
Sounds like a nice material. :)
I want my walls to be snozzberry flavored
Very cool stuff
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